The Hot Coffee Mod

Grand Theft Auto "San andreas"

What was the hot coffee Mod?

In june 2005, A Mini-game for grand theft auto "san andreas" named the hot coffee Mod was released by patrick wildenborg, a 38-year old modder from the netherlands. The name "hot coffee" refers to the way the released game alludes to the unseen sex scenes.

How did the mod affect San Andreas's Age rating ?

By the middle of July 2005, The minigame started to get discovered by politicians which started to get controversy, which meant the game was going to get rerated to an adult game, and pulled from shelves, however the minigame was then removed which meant that the rated will stay the same.

What was the impact for each of the stakeholders?

For the developers, they had to becareful making gta iv, so they dont do a silly mistake, there game had to be taken off shelves.

For the platform holders would of been affected because they would of being a bad name and would put people off on the consoles. Retails would have to take the item off the shelves, it would be known as a recall, they would of lost sales.